Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

475 c YVES TANGUY Rhabdomacie . Etching, 1947. 298x227 mm; 11 3 / 4 x9 inches, full margins. Artist’s proof, printed in black, aside from the edition of 70 printed in colors. Printed at Atelier 17, New York. Published by Brunidor Editions, New York. From Portfolio Number One . A superb, richly-inked proof with very strong contrasts and sharp, inky plate edges. Wittrock 13. [2,000/3,000] 476 c YVES TANGUY Rocher . Pen and ink on wove paper, circa 1930. 310x217 mm; 12 1 / 4 x8 1 / 2 inches. Ex-collection E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels; Conroy Maddox, London, from 1940, with an inscription on the verso; Richard L. Feigen&Co., NewYork (inventory number 15726-D); sold Sotheby`s New York, October 7, 1989, lot 147. In 1930, Tanguy (1900-1955) traveled toNorth Africa and was inspired by elements of the African landscape like the Atlas Mountains. He turned to sketching solid, molded forma­ tions. These rocky forms would appear in his important Surrealist landscapes into the 1940s. [4,000/6,000] 475 476